The Kickstarter campaign for OUYA has given us a handful of pretty big announcements, from Square Enix announcing Final Fantasy III as a launch title for the Android console, to Robert Bowling's reveal that an episodic prequel to Robomodo's upcoming game Human Element will be exclusive to OUYA. Today, however, the OUYA team made an announcement of an entirely different nature, telling Kickstater backers that they have partnered with VEVO. Naturally, this means that OUYA owners will be able to use their console to access VEVO's massive library of music videos.

This week we saw Ouya gain support from OnLive, the online game streaming service, and now the company has found another ally in the gaming industry. Ouya has taken to its Kickstarter page to announce that it has partnered with Square Enix, with the developer intending to bring Final Fantasy III to the Android-based console when it eventually launches. Ouya say that this is the first time gamers outside of Japan will be able to play Final Fantasy III on a television via a console.

Kickstarters flocked to the Ouya gaming platform when it was announced, with the project recently surpassing $5.5 million in funding. Now the console has scored a major content partner in the form of OnLive. Streaming games will be available on Ouya from launch thanks to the creation of an OnLive app for the console, which is running a modified version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

No one is expecting the innovative Android-based Ouya game console to be huge in size, but it might be even smaller than you've pictured. "Our console is quite small, around the size of a Rubik's cube, and so it will easily fit anywhere in a room, or be easy to throw in a backpack," said hardware designer Yves Behar in an interview.

The Android-based gaming platform known as OUYA has sent out an update letting both developers and end-users know that they'll not only be given instructions on how to hack their devices, they'll be given alternate software builds as well. This guarantee was initially only made to developers signing up to the development program for the gaming console, but other Kickstarter-friendly users have been assured of the option to root (with instructions) as well. The project known as Ouya has been quite vocal about being "open-source" since they first appeared on the croudfunding site Kickstarter some weeks ago, and now that they've raised many times their original asking amount to get their project in motion, they appear more than willing to continue with their initial promises.

The man responsible for Creative Strategy on Infinity Ward's Call of Duty franchise has announced that his next big behemoth of a game, Human Element, will be given a prequel exclusive to the upcoming console known as OUYA. This console has gained significant traction in the last few weeks as its launch on Kickstarter blasted through all expected initial funding efforts, capturing the Android community as it did so. With an exclusive game launch as giant as this coming with it, the potential for failure should by all means be non-existent!

Kickstarter updated the design layout for project pages today, announced by CEO Perry Chen on the blog. It was said that project pages are the “heart and soul” of the entire site, which drove nearly 60 percent of pageviews over the last month. The average visitor should find that information is easier to locate on all project pages with the updated changes.

The folks behind the Android-based gaming system OUYA have revealed this week that they've been holding back a "secret weapon" of sorts in their bid for Kickstarter supremacy: Muffi Ghadiali of Lab126 from Amazon. This fellow worked on the Kindle product line in both software and hardware and was responsible for interacting with engineering, product design, industrial design, supply chain, QA teams, and operations. Now that the OUYA project has more than $5 million USD in funding via Kickstarter before it's even launched AND they've got the support of a proven winner, what's to stop them?

This week the Kickstarter phenomenon known as OUYA has reached $5 million dollars pledged for their Android-based gaming console with 22 days left to go. This amount of cash for a project such as this is fantastic on its own, but given the group's $950,000 goal at the start of the project, it's become a whole new animal since it started less than a month ago. With more than 5 times their original seed money request, it's time for the developers and engineers behind the project to seriously reconsider their futures in their respective fields - things are looking up!